“Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” – Homer Simpson

This week we’ve got four different links mentioning the final segment of “Treehouse of Horror”. Some people are mentioning it as part of television history, other’s are using it for lesser purposes like educating children. In addition to that we’ve got some non-IGN synergy, lots of Halloween related YouTube, and a couple of cool Simpsons Halloween costumes.

Enjoy.

Come along, Bort! – This is Smooth Charlie’s Click of the Week. It’s a fine job, both by Universal Studios for wasting precious retail space, and to whoever took this picture.

Apple Newton – Fifteen years later and the Apple Newton lives through mockery.

Simpsons get the vinyl treatment (again) – IGN may be out of the fake review business, but there’s plenty of other News Corp. properties out there. Here’s The New York Post pimping Simpsons collectables.

There have been many pluses to teaching Christopher at home. Along with studying the actual literature, we watched The Simpsonsversion of The Ravenand the BBC production of Austen’s Emma AND IT TOTALLY COUNTED AS CURRICULUM. Which is more full of WIN than I can adequately express.

Where else can you see Darth Vader reciting one of the most famous poems in the English language?

Happy Treehouse of Horror Day – I’m not just mentioning this because it links to us. It’s a general paean to the Halloween specials that comes with a question at the end:

Finally, what’s your favourite Treehouse of Horror segment? I think “Dial ‘Z’ for Zombies” (from season 4) is usually my favourite — though in my opinion it’s the standout in an otherwise weakish special, where you can sort of tell that the other two segments came out poorly and were saved by endless redubbing and re-cutting. A close runner-up is “Time and Punishment” (season 6), which has led me to expect Mr. Peabody to tell Sherman “Quiet, you!” whenever I see a Rocky and Bullwinkle rerun.

This leads to people discussing their favorite segments in the comments and, wouldn’t you know it, Zombie Simpsons comes up only once. And even that person just says that that the Halloween parts haven’t gone south (implying that the rest has), and then mentions a Season 14 bit before talking about two segments from the good old days.

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